The Marian Consort – A Winged Woman (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:03 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following an album dedicated to the forgotten Renaissance master Vicente Lusitano (Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Der Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik Quarterly Critic’s Choice), The Marian Consort makes an enthralling leap forward to the present day. True to its core mission of expanding the vocal repertoire, A Winged Woman showcases the ensemble’s commissions from a crop of the UK’s finest composers – including seven world premiere recordings – with music by Dani Howard, James MacMillan, Electra Perivolaris, Howard Skempton, Chloe Knibbs and others. The works challenge traditions and tropes in imaginative and refreshing ways, bringing together a rich array of musical styles and textual approaches. As Perivolaris’s titular work makes clear, this album puts centre stage the compelling work of some of today’s most exciting women composers.
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The Marian Consort, The Illyria Consort & Bojan Čičić – Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:26 minutes | 1000 MB | Genre: Classical
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In March 1575, a party led by the Venetian diplomat Giacomo Soranzo set out on a mission to Constantinople. They sailed down the Istrian coast, along the length of present-day Croatia, and on to the Bay of Kotor. Much of the land they passed was the territory of the Serenissima – inhabited by both Italians and Slavs, and of strategic importance since it was exposed to constant Turkish threats from the Balkan hinterland.
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The Marian Consort – Vicente Lusitano: Motets (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:18 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following its debut on Linn presenting a triptych of works by Josquin des Prez, Vicente Lusitano and Roderick Williams, The Marian Consort now focuses its attention on the central figure of this trio, the “Portuguese”. In his own time an important music theorist, Lusitano’s reputation and music have both been neglected in ours. As so often with musical figures of the Renaissance, many of the details of his life remain unknown. We can, however, be reasonably confident that he was the first published composer of African heritage. Referred to as “pardo” in one eighteenth-century source, his only surviving printed book of compositions, the Liber primus epigramatum, was issued in Rome in 1551. True to its pioneer spirit as “brilliant discoverers, and exponents, of rare repertoire” (The Observer), The Marian Consort has recorded a carefully chosen programme of these striking and impressive unjustly forgotten works.
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The Marian Consort – Josquin, Lusitano & Williams: Inviolata (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:02 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
This triptych of Inviolata settings marks the beginning of The Marian Consort’s new relationship with Linn, and serves as something of a mission statement: interrogating the music of the past; reviving important, unjustly forgotten works; and using both as inspiration for new compositions. At the centre of this digital-only release is the neglected composer and theorist Vicente Lusitano. Much detail of his life remains unknown, but we can say with reasonable confidence that he was the first published composer of African heritage.
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